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Letters Patent No,- 7 6,097, dated March 31, 1868.

IMPROVED FIRE-ESCAPE.

'TO 'ALL WHOM IT-MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN Print, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Fire-Escape for tenement-houses and other buildings; and do hereby declarethat the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, inaking part of this specification, of which r M I Figure 1 represents myin'vention applied to the rear of a dwelling-house.

Figurez, an elevation, taken at, right angles to the former.

Figure 3, a horizontal section, taken through one of the doors of escapc; and

Figured 5. vertical section, showing the ladder.

This invention relates-to a novel device, to be applied to a tenement-house o'r otherbuilding, for the purose of enabling the inmates to Inalte a safe retreat froin the house when on fire and consists of a three-sided metallic (or other non-combustible material) box, attached to the outside of the house, containing a ladder, both box and ladder extending from the ground to the eaves of the building, and having doors opening out of the box on to-iron balconies or footways, which connmunicate'with a window of each floor, so that, when the house is on fir'e, the inmates can make their exit through the windows on to the balconies, thence through the doors into the iron box, and, thus nrotected from fire, descend by the ladder to the street.

, Inthe drawingsfA represents the wall of a dwelling-house, and B B, &c., the windows. 0 is the netallic box, extending from the ground D to the eaves E ofthe house.. This box has three sides fg infirmly attached to theiwall of the house A, which forms the fourth side of a hollow square box, in which is placed the ladder I, extending the height of the box. The box has also doors KK, 8;e.,-on its sidef, which openon iron balconies or footways leading from the box, and bringing-the interior of the'house in communication with thebox and ladder throiigh a window, B, of each floor; these doors being fastened on the outside; K' is the door of exit next the street, which is fastened on the inside, and M M, 850., are open lights or ventilators in thebox G.

This fire-escape may be placed between the'windows of two adjoining houseawith doors and balconies on the side It of the box, the ladder attached to the brick wall A, and thus made a fire-escape for the inmates of both houses.v A

Having described nay-invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The metallicornon-combustible boxf-g Indoors K K K, ladder I, and metallic balconies L, combined and arranged togcthersnbstantially as and for the purposes described and set forth.-

.In testimonywhcreof, I have hereunto set my signature, this sixteenth day of January, A. D. 1868. JOHN PAAR.

Witnesses:

v A. ONEILL,

I. F. Rommrs; 

